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542 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [November 13, 1868. of Mr. Bedford's recent pictures, and we may add the inter esting intimation that the pictures are now described as those of G. Francis and William Bedford ; Mr. Bedford’s son promising worthily to maintain the reputation of his father. Mr. England sends a frame of the capital results obtained during the summer in the Savoy. Messrs. Robinson and Cherrill send some large landscapes with such grand clouds as are not often seen, still less often secured in the camera. Mr.Wardley sends some magnificent 16 by 12 landscapes by thecollodio-albumen process. Mr. R. Manners Gordon contri butes a few of the most exquisite little photographic gems ever exhibited. No one should fail to see a charming little landscape with groups of sheep, which is as nearly perfect as possible. A view of Carnarvon Castle just above it, taken with the gum process he has described in our pages, ought to be seen by all who are interested in dry processes. This plate was kept upwards of a month before exposure, and upwards of a fortnight more before development ; and, not withstanding the perfection of the detail in every part, it only received fifteen seconds’ exposure. Mr. Vernon Heath sent a fine collection of his admirable landscapes. The Hon. W. Petre, a gentleman quite in his novitiate as regards photography, has sent some very capital artistic landscapes. Some mountain and waterfall scenery by Mr. Crofton Atkins, Mr. Beasley, Mr. Howard, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Brown rigg, Mr. Spode, Mr. Best, Mr. Clarke, Mr. A. Irving, Mr. Bowen, the Royal Engineers, and others, send landscapes well worth inspection. In portraiture, perhaps, the exhibition is richest, and it would be somewhat difficult to assign the order of precedence. There is a large collection of examples of Adam-Salomon which need no comment, art qualities and technical excel lence abounding in greater or less degree in every one. A portrait of M. Salomon is exhibited by Messrs. Lock and Whitfield, and another by Messrs. Robinson and Cherrill. The only other portrait exhibited by the latter firm is a magnificent Salomonesque portrait of Mr. Hain Friswell, wonderful for its life-like and fine expression. Mr. Robin son’s successor at Leamington, Mr. Netterville Briggs, ex hibits a collection of 12 by 10 portraits, furnishing admirable examples of the same style, one of which is the prize portrait of the Falmouth Exhibition, and which we have already noticed. Some very fine cabinet portraits with natural land scape backgrounds, and some pretty vignette pictures by a new process, styled "Emolliotype" (of which moie hereafter), are exhibited by the same gentleman. Mr. Blanchard has some very satisfactory examples of the Salomon style of por traiture, brilliant, delicate, rich, and well modelled. Mr. Fry has a fine collection in the same style, which have the addi tional interest of illustrating the results of the mode of masking recently described in our pages. Mr. Mayland has some brilliant examples of the same style. Mr. Leake has some very satisfactory specimens. Mr. Burgess of Norwich, Mr. Slingsby of Lincoln, Mr. Fradelle, Mr. Ashdowne, and others, send some fine illustrations of the same style, some of which we must return to next week, as well as to other styles of portraiture. In subject-pictures the exhibition is rich, but we can only now mention, as contributing interesting examples in this department, the names of Mr. Rejlander, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Twyman, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Jewell, Dr. Wallich, Mrs. Cameron, Mr.Crawshay, Mr. Slingsby, Mr. Rump, and others. We shall return to this subject next week. The Autotype Company had some magnificent examples of pigment printing; Edwards and Co. exhibited many very fine, interesting illustrations of varied applications of pigment printing. Mr. Henderson, Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Barnes, and an amateur, exhibited enamels which afford satisfactory illustration of the progress which this branch of the art is making. Collodio-chlorides, coloured pictures, Piercytypes, apparatus, and many other things, must receive attention another week. Meanwhile, we may mention that the exhibition will remain open at the Gallery, 9, Conduit Street, until Tuesday evening. SIMPLE PLAN OF OBTAINING PLAIN PAPER PRINTS. Or late years the use of albuminized paper has been all but universal amongst photographers', in many establishments such a thing as a plain paper print never by any chance being produced. The rich, engraving-like plain prints of Hennah, with their deep, velvety blacks, are things of the past; and although a protest is entered now and then against the vulgar gloss of albuminized paper, yet photo graphers and the public have become so accustomed to it, and the practice of printing upon it has attained such a high degree of perfection, that it is not likely to be deposed from its present position of universality. It happens, however, now and then, in many establish ments, that a plain paper print is required for some special purpose, and the printer is sometimes under the necessity of making several experiments before he can produce anything sufficiently perfect. The enquiry not unfrequently reaches us from persons who say that they have never worked with plain paper, “ How shall I proceed to get a few presentable plain paper prints ? ” Some time ago a sample of paper was in the market entitled “ Amorphous albuminized paper,” which had a matt surface, and gave all the vigour of ordinary albuminized, without its gloss. We generally re commended the use of such paper when unalbuminized prints were required, as it required no treatment different from ordinary albuminized paper. The demand for the amorphous paper has not, however, been sufficient to induce its maker to continue the supply ; and we were informed the other day by Mr. Rejlander, with whom this paper was a great favourite, that it could no longer be procured. The plan we are about to name is not, we believe, strictly new, but is, we fear, very little known. Our attention was recently called to it by Mr. Blanchard, who finds it answer admirably. It consists in floating apiece of ordinary albu minized paper on the silver bath with the plain side in con tact with the solution—treating the albuminized surface, in fact, as the wrong side. The albumen and salt applied to one side of the paper appear to permeate the whole sub stance sufficiently to form a vigorous image on the other side when treated as we have described. The print is toned and fixed in the same manner as those with an albuminized surface. The plain paper print thus secured is rich, vigorous, and of excellent colour, and the nearest approxi mation to those yielded by the amorphous albuminized paper, of any plain paper prints we have seen for some time. OUR PRINTING ROOM. BY NELSON K. CHEttRILL. Surely by this time there are no secrets in the printing room • Surely the PuoroGRAPIIC News and other journals have not reached their twelfth volumes and yet not have exhausted so simple a subject as printing! Still I suppose it is so, if, at least, one may judge by the vast amount of ignorance which exists in the photographic world upon printing matters. Perhaps there is another way of putting it, which is better: all that can be said of printing may have been said ; aye, may have been said many times over, and yet it may never have reached the understandings of some “ intelligent printers.” There can, at any rate, be no harm, and may be some inte rest, in describing somewhat in detail the operations which are daily carried, on in our printing rooms. Those who know all about it need not read this article ; but I trust that there may bo some one or two points worthy of note even for the wise ones. The first operation after taking a negative, before printing, is the varnishing process. For my own part, I greatly pre fer the use of hot water for the necessary warming to the old plan of holding the plate to the fire. I am indebted to Mr. England for the suggestion, by whom, if I am not mis taken, it was first made. The apparatus I use consists simply
